Windows 7 What external hard drive

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Danaw

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• Nov 29, 2009

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Hi,

I have been using win 7 since the beta days on both an ASUS laptop & Dell XPS420 and have had no problems with external hard drives.

I use 3 diffferent ones, an ASUS USB/ESATA, a generic USB enclosure that takes both SATA and IDE drives, and a My BooK with USB/Firewire? ESATA interface.

This is with Win 7 32 bit. I am in the process of installing Win 7 x64 in the Dell but don't expect any trouble with any of the drives.

I hope that this helps.

DanaW

 

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alexam

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• Nov 29, 2009

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Danaw said:

Hi,

I have been using win 7 since the beta days on both an ASUS laptop & Dell XPS420 and have had no problems with external hard drives.

I use 3 diffferent ones, an ASUS USB/ESATA, a generic USB enclosure that takes both SATA and IDE drives, and a My BooK with USB/Firewire? ESATA interface.

This is with Win 7 32 bit. I am in the process of installing Win 7 x64 in the Dell but don't expect any trouble with any of the drives.

I hope that this helps.

DanaW

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Thanks for the info. Did you add Firewall to the My Book?

Malcolm

 

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Danaw

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• Nov 30, 2009

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Do you mean firewire or firewall?

The My Book came with firewire interface, the model is mainlt for Macs but since the ESATA on my Dell doesn't work I prefere firewire to USB as it is faster for straight data trandfer.

DanaW

 

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Thanks for that. I am considering the 'My Book' and looking at others but need to get one by the time my new PC arrives in about a week's time.

Malcolm

 

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U can trust Western Digital, It a GOOD choice for Extrnal HD

 

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Andrew Jacowski

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there are many hard disk with multiple brand , sata and other , some for computer and some use hd

 

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I would avoid external drives that use hardware encryption. All of the drives from WD that come with Smartware are hardware encrypted. If the circuit board goes bad it is extremely difficult to recover data.
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